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  • While holding a conversation on his smartphone, a stooping gent struggles to slide a free copy of the Evening Standard newspaper into his briefcase, beneath the high walls of the Bank of England in the City of London. Bending down to stuff the newspaper into his bag, the businessman awkwardly maintains his chat on the phone. The man behind texts on his own phone too. Above them and in the distance are the walls of the Bank - known as the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street - the monetary regulator of Britain's economy.
    bank_people01-09-02-2015_1.jpg
  • A woman toutist reads a map of the area, stopped by the side of highway 190 in Death Valley, California. A road sign warns of the bending road that skirts the arid area, dangerous for those caught without transport and water. Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it is the lowest and driest area in North America. Death Valley has the record highest recorded air temperature in the world. The valley received its English name in 1849 during the California Gold Rush and called Death Valley by prospectors.
    death_valley_tourist-18-05-1996_1.jpg
  • A young man washes the family Ford Anglia car on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Bending down to wring a leather dry into a bucket the young man cleans his father's beloved Anglia in the street outside the family house which interestingly, is otherwise empty of other cars. This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
    sixties_archive09-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007_1.jpg
  • Ducking under the falling spray from a giant wave, a passer-by experience the force of nature from a storm off the coasts of southern England - here at the Port of Dover, Kent. As the water hits the sea defence wall, the seaside town is battered by southerly winds that bring with them huge breakers across the promenade. Adventurous and foolhardy people brave these conditions and stay for as long as possible at the railings then jump out at the last moment before getting doused in salt spray. This man carries on walking and thinks that by bending down, the sea will pass overhead.
    seaside_storm-21-10-1989.jpg
  • A bent street sign for Acacia Road in Mitcham, London borough of Merton. Apparently damaged by a reversing vehicle, in a side street of a south London estate, the sign is leaning as its human legs are bending at the knee, a curtsey or a bow. Acacia Road is also the generic name for an anywhere place, a location for the ordinary, average Britain. The borough of Merton is the result of a merger of Mitcham, Wimbledon and Merton & Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey. It has an area of 14.52 sq mi (37.61 km2) who ethnicity is 48.4% White British.
    acacia_sign02-04-10-2015.jpg
  • A lady wearing a red dress with black polka dots locks her bike near a red public telephone kiosk. Bending over to attach the lock that might prevent a bike thief - common in the capital and other cities in the UK - she echoes the red of the phone box in Russel Street, the heart of London's theatreland. The red kiosk stands as an iconic piece of architecture that has graced Britain's towns and villages for 70-odd years. These K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer.
    red_cyclist01-25-04-2013.jpg
  • Two women both bend to search for items in their bags, outside a box office entrance, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bending_women-01-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A City businessman bends down to tie a shoelace outside the Guildhalls Art Gallery on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom. The Guildhalls Art gallery was established in 1886 as a Collection of Art Treasures worthy of the capital city, and includes works dating from 1670 to the present, including 17th-century portraits, Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and a range of paintings documenting Londons dramatic history.
    tying_shoelace-01-13-02-2017.jpg
  • A man bends down to place a Bounty bar into his holdall bag, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    stooping_man-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • Fossil hunters bend down looking among Eocene rocks and stone at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. Examining the stony ground, the amateur palaeonotologists search for tyhe remains of sea creatures from a bygone era. Warden Point, a pinnacle of eroding land and muddy foreshore. The area encompasses around a million years of sedimentation, dating from the early Eocene epoch of the Palaeogene period, 52-51 million years ago. At this time southern England was located approximately 40°N of the equator, 10°S of its present latitude, comparable to Spain today.
    fossil_hunters01-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • A man bends down to adjust a rug, in a shop window thats soon to close down and where everything must go, on 23rd September 2016, in Mayfair, central London, England.
    closing_down-02-23-09-2016.jpg
  • Woman bends down to tie a shoelace beneath a fashion poster showing a fashion couple and St Paul's Cathedral. Stooping down on a ledge at near pavement level, the lady makers her adjustments before continuing her journey. The models are the epitome of youth and happiness, with the backdrop of the capital's famous landmark.
    city_people11-08-10-2013_1.jpg
  • A workman in a hi-viz tabard bends down in front of the window screen, an essential job for a forthcoming The Toy Store shop in Oxford Street, central London. In the background are the bright colours of a construction hoarding for a new Toy Store on this busy street in Westminster, central London. There is a theme of striped poles and twisting design that helps lure the young and seduce their business when open soon.
    oxfordSt_colour02-15-09-2015.jpg
  • Leaning traffic post and twisting double-yellow lines in Soho, central London. We look down to street level to see the wonky character of lines and geometry: The badly-painted parallel parking restrictioin lines that bend with the angle of the kerb as well as the damaged, scraped and leaning bollard, there to deter drivers from parking on the pavement but which has been pushed over by a driver. The picture is about the irony of geometry, of the madness of urban details.
    leaning_post01-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • 1980s architecture at the Broadgate City of London development and stooping woman. The lady bends over her awkward load surrounded by light reflections forming a chequered pattern on pavement and wall architecture. Office buildings are everywhere in the background. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s. The City is a major business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was perhaps the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses
    broadgate_architecture01-13-08-2014.jpg
  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
    tea_picking04-12-1980_1_1.jpg
  • Beneath reflected light on a wall near the Barbican, a woman bends down to adjust her shoe in the City of London, the capitals financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-15-08-08-2019.jpg
  • A person bends down by a stream near Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on 12th April 2017, in Malham, Yorkshire, England.
    yorkshire-63-12-04-2017.jpg
  • An odd job maintenance man bends awkwardly on a pair of stepladders to reach an internal light fitting in the cafeteria area of auditing company Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarters at More London, England. Dressed in blue shirt and dark trousers and with keys attached to his belt, the balancing man stretches into the hole left by the light to access wiring. To his right we also see an idyllic scene of wild meadow flowers, a carpet of red flora that goes into the distance though incongrously, the reflection of many cafe lights are seen in the sky of the meadow picture. Ernst & Young employs 114,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
    ernst+young373-09-08-2007_1.jpg
  • A worker at the Copper Industries factory in Northern Ireland bends copper sheeting for the manufacture of hot water tanks for use with the Willis Renewables Solar Syphone. Copper Industries are the company that manufacture the Solar Syphon for Willis Renewables.  Willis Renewables are the inventors and distributors of the Solar Syphon, and are based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  The Solar Syphon system is a simple ‘add-on’ heat exchange unit which provides a lower cost installation alternative to the traditional twin coil solar cylinder. Willis Renewables won an Ashden Award in 2010 for its inspiring sustainable energy solutions.
    10-willis-1332.jpg
  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997_1.jpg
  • A man next to a Man At Work traffic sign, stands up after crouching on the bust street on 8th September 2016, in the City of London, England UK. In the background are the pillars of Royal Exchange. It is rush hour and commuters are beginning their journeys home from the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first century.
    city_people-20-08-09-2016.jpg
  • A lady shopper stretches to see down a lower-level floor in the northern Italian south Tyrolean city of Bozen-Bolzano. Seemingly falling over into the hole where supplies are lowered into the basement, the lady balances on one leg and holds her bag to steady herself.
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  • A kind stranger picks-up a hat belonging to another pedestrian by a construction hoarding, a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) and adjacent apartments across the river in Vauxhall. Under the gaze of a CCTV camera, the gentleman retrieves the item for another (unseen) person as his friend points to alert its owner. <br />
The temporary hoarding will stay in place for the time that the company's new residential riverfront apartments are under construction. In the image, the building at Vauxhall Cross, is located at 85 Albert Embankment beside Vauxhall Bridge. It is known within the intelligence community as "Legoland" and "Babylon-on-Thames".
    river_hoarding02-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A businessman stoops down to tie a shoelace, resting his leg in Fye Foot Lane EC4 in the financial City of London. Crouching on one leg with the other on a stone plinth, the man ties the laces while on his lunch break. The City sign tells us the location and postcode of this area, in the heart of the financial City of London, known as the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
    city_streets13-31-01-2013_1.jpg
  • Traditional Thai massage at a small massage stop on Klong Nin beach, Koh Lanta, Thailand. Thai massage, an ancient artform can be a painful experience, the masseur digging her fingers heavily into muscles and joints. The rewards of tension relief however make it all worth the pain.
    2006-11-12_Thai Massage_E.jpg
  • Traditional Thai massage at a small massage stop on Klong Nin beach, Koh Lanta, Thailand. Thai massage, an ancient artform can be a painful experience, the masseur digging her fingers heavily into muscles and joints. The rewards of tension relief however make it all worth the pain.
    2006-11-12_Thai Massage_C.jpg
  • Traditional Thai massage at a small massage stop on Klong Nin beach, Koh Lanta, Thailand. Thai massage, an ancient artform can be a painful experience, the masseur digging her fingers heavily into muscles and joints. The rewards of tension relief however make it all worth the pain.
    2006-11-12_Thai Massage_D.jpg
  • Traditional Thai massage at a small massage stop on Klong Nin beach, Koh Lanta, Thailand. Thai massage, an ancient artform can be a painful experience, the masseur digging her fingers heavily into muscles and joints. The rewards of tension relief however make it all worth the pain.
    2006-11-12_Thai Massage_B.jpg
  • Two ladies arrive early at the Royal Ascot horseracing festival for an early picnic in a grassy car park. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot01-19-06-2013_1.jpg
  • Wealthy punters with bottles of empty Champagne laid out enjoy a morning car park party on grass, hours before the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot56-19-06-2013.jpg
  • A businessman stoops to pick-up dropped paperwork that has spilled onto the pavement (sidewalk) in London.
    picking_up_man01-03-02-2011.jpg
  • A pensioner stoops to lift home-grown beetroot in his Somerset back garden. The home-grown organic crops have been sown and nurtured on this privately-owned land in a rural location. Rows of salads, rhubarb, beets, onions and other assorted veg and flowers thrive on this good soil, helping to feed the family living in the nearby bungalow.
    garden_vegetables06-21-08-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Sagging shelves, heavy with the weight of colourful, imported fabrics in an East End street, on 14th February 2018, in London, England.
    fabric_shelves-01-14-02-2018.jpg
  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post05-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Girl runs past a leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post02-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Ceiling lights from inside a trendy Soho cafe, with old buildings opposite. With stencils of butterflies on the window in the foreground, we see into the cafe where curved lighting is on the ceiling with spotlights  pointing in various directions. In the background are Victorian properties, shops and businesses that form the character of Wardour Street in the area of narrow lanes and roads called Soho.
    wardour_cafe06-28-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A woman farmer taps dripping resin from a rubber tree in a plantation on Pulau Langkawi Island, Malaysia. We see the lady surrounded by even rows of trees, all carefully spaced when planted. Each cool evening the tapper removes a thin layer of bark along a downward half spiral on the tree trunk. She makes an incision in the bark of the tree and fluid then drains into a collecting vessel. If done carefully and with skill, this tapping panel will yield latex for up to 5 years. Malaysia is one of the top exporters of natural rubber. Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia.
    RB_100-16-05-1981.jpg
  • Amid post-War inner-city concrete, an elderly man struggles up a slope in Birmingham’s infamous Bull Ring, a development of open-air market stalls, offices and a new indoor shopping centre, the first indoor city-centre shopping centre in the UK. It symbolised everything horrid about architecture in a modern Britain. The words ‘Unspoilt by progress’ seems to be a statement of extreme  falsehood, a lie for those using this grim feature of modernism. The market began in medieval 1154 but it was its 1964 regeneration that gave it a reputation of an oppressive urban monstrosity though it  was considered the height of modernity. But higher rents meant traders turned away and the public shunned subways and escalators which stopped working regularly. Much disliked by the public it contributed to the popular conception that Birmingham was a ‘concrete jungle’.
    birmingham_concrete-25-06-1997_1.jpg
  • A lady stoops to fetch something from her bag at a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of Eros, the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilberts winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called Londons most famous work of sculpture.
    piccadilly_eros-09-25-02-2020.jpg
  • A businessman stops to tie a loose shoelace on Lombard Street in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-40-04-09-2019.jpg
  • Sagging shelves, heavy with the weight of colourful, imported fabrics in an East End street, on 14th February 2018, in London, England.
    fabric_shelves-03-14-02-2018.jpg
  • A lady stands on one leg to change her shoes beneath the WW1 memorial at Royal Exchange, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-53-19-04-2017.jpg
  • The back of a road crossing figure and a cyclist at the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. During the extensive construction of the capital's Crossrail transport project, street-level disruption has been massive and pedestrians and drivers have endured re-routing and hold-ups for many years. On the other side of these blue signs are human figures that stand at these junctions to stop crossing on red lights and thereby help stop accidents.
    oxford_street01-03-12-2015_1.jpg
  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    bent_lamppost01-30-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A tourist crouches on the original 4th century marble starting line at ancient Olympia's athletics track where both ancient Greeks and Romans held their games. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers before competition. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet, or 'Stadion,' from which we get the word 'Stadium'. Olympic spectators suffered dehydration due to to extreme heat. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and at the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
    greek_olympiad005-20-10_2003_1.jpg
  • A worker at the Copper Industries factory in Northern Ireland soldeers a copper hot water tank for use with the Willis Renewables Solar Syphone. Copper Industries are the company that manufacture the Solar Syphon for Willis Renewables.  Willis Renewables are the inventors and distributors of the Solar Syphon, and are based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  The Solar Syphon system is a simple ‘add-on’ heat exchange unit which provides a lower cost installation alternative to the traditional twin coil solar cylinder. Willis Renewables won an Ashden Award in 2010 for its inspiring sustainable energy solutions.
    10-willis-1349.jpg
  • The children of AMPO orphanage do a warm up session before playing a game of ‘get the cone’ with coaches from the Coaching For Hope project. Coaching for Hope is a project to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS through football.
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  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post07-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A woman farmer taps dripping resin from a rubber tree in a plantation on Pulau Langkawi Island, Malaysia. We see the lady surrounded by even rows of trees, all carefully spaced when planted. Each cool evening the tapper removes a thin layer of bark along a downward half spiral on the tree trunk. She makes an incision in the bark of the tree and fluid then drains into a collecting vessel. If done carefully and with skill, this tapping panel will yield latex for up to 5 years. Malaysia is one of the top exporters of natural rubber. Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia.
    rubber_plantation-16-05-1981.jpg
  • A boat from the Oxford University rowing team rounds the bend of the River Thames in Putney, West London during a winter training session. First raced in 1829 the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge unbiversities is one of the oldest sporting events in the world. It is nowadays watched by thousands along the banks of The Thames Tideway, between Putney and Mortlake in London and by millions more on TV around the world.
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  • Chibata Kanjuro, whose family has been making bows since the 15th century, bends the bamboo frame of a new bow in his workshop in Kyoto, Japan..
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  • Rawat Nahar Singhji, also known as Rao Saheb, greets the staff of the Deogarh Mahal, a fort - palace, now converted into a heritage hotel after the family had no way of maintaining it's upkeep. His family belonged to the Umroa’s of Udaipur. “Lords” of the State of Mewar, paying allegiance to the Maharana of Udaipur. Eight generations of his family have lived in the Deogarh fort -palace after which it underwent its transforamation in 1996, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
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  • A man stoops to adjust a shoelace in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • A curve on a dirt road through the jungle interior, Principe, Sao Tome and Principe<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • A woman's now uselesss hand.?ÄúThey couldn?Äôt cut it off...?Äù Makeni, Sierra Leone, 2004
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  • Ibrahim and his daughter pull weeds from their plot of land in front of their House in Makeni resettlement village for amputees, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Reenu, 15 and her brother practice their contortions. Reenu and her family are trained by her mother, herself a former acrobat. The children, when babies, were stretched and contorted to make their bones pliable for the act. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • Dhading, the high street. Steel for construction work laid out for sale.
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  • The rear of a man is seen between clothing of a man bending down to listen to his phone that is re-charging at a Duolingo Wi-fi Smart Bench at Elephant & Castle in south London, on 20th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • Children amazed at a distorted face through Petroc Sesti's art instillation called Time Fold in Great Helen's Square, in the City of London. The kids look at the optics with amazement, marvelling at its bending of light and optical experience. Petroc Sesti is a London based British artist and Time Fold bends light like a prism, hypnotising the viewer by reflecting on its ever-changing spiral motion.
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  • Young boys fishing along the Tarn River in Albi, Southern France. With his fishing rod bending, this boy had caught something way bigger than he had planned for and was struggling to land a 2 metre long catfish.
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  • Winning and losing contestants line up to receive their prizes at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The point of focus is a young cheeky-faced girl adorned with a winners’ special rosette and she grins cheekily to her friend alongside. Far right another girl less satisfied inspects her own rosette. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on childrens participation such as those organised here by the Pony Club. Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race also known as down and back, flag race, and pole bending.
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  • Young boys fishing along the Tarn River in Albi, Southern France. With his fishing rod bending, this boy had caught something way bigger than he had planned for and was struggling to land a 2 metre long catfish.
    20180105_albi france_012.jpg
  • A building worker grinds steel caging on a construction project site in Milton Keynes, UK. Bending down to ground level, the workman touches his grinder to cut the steel structure into the required size and shape, destined to be covered in reinforced concrete for this generic construction project. Sparks fly up though the worker wears no protection gear against burns from the hot sparks.
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  • While two mates in tartan uniform trousers look a little bashfully, a more forward friend from the same Scots regiment soldier chats to two young women during 50th anniversary celebrations of wartime VE Day. Bending down to make himself heard and perhaps to impress the two rather posh females into sharing their phone numbers. They are in Hyde Park to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day on 6th May 1995. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved.
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  • Bending forward as a mark of humility and respect for his deity, a young follower of Tibetan-Buddhism adjusts a prayer bowl in front of an effigy of Buddha at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. This young western man wears traditional Tibetan monk's clothes and many here have had a troubled youth, sometimes escaping a criminal past so arrive in the Scottish wilderness for isolated retreats and self-purification, short-term spiritual relaxation or to follow Tibetan teaching methods for discovering inner-peace, through prayer and meditation. This Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Kagyu school celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007.
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  • A curator inspects art canvasses leaning against gallery walls in the Royal Academy (RA) for its 'The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century' exhibition, a collection of important works of art by Italian artists such as Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi. In the privacy of the closed gallery, a lady official from the RA is bending down, resting her hands on knees and scrutinizing for possible damage after their removal from travel packing crates, whilst on the floor before hanging for public view. We see the largest picture on the right (Luca Carlevaris, The Bucintore Departing from S. Marco. 1710) of the Grand Canal in Venice and on the left is 'Domenico Tiepolo, The Institution of the Eucharist, 1753'. Polished wooden parquet flooring is protected by blocks that support the weight of each work of priceless art.
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  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
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  • Behind their horsebox, a dedicated mother puts the finishing touches to her daughter's hair at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing regulation jodhpurs, tie and hairnet, the young girl is almost ready to mount her pony and hopefully earn winning rosettes. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • In afternoon sunshine, a local mother and her child on scooter pause to talk during a walk in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, South London. Bending down to the child's face, the mum makes her point known to the youngster who stands astride her toy before continuing their journeys around the upper paths of this Victorian public space. Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare (125.53 acres) park located between Brixton, Herne Hill and Tulse Hill. Brockwell Hall house and its grounds were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public the following summer. In 1901 the LCC acquired a further 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of the original park.
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  • Two young 1990s girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on childrens participation such as those organised here by the Pony Club. Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race also known as down and back, flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • Portrait of a young girl holding her First Prize winning pony at a gymkhana meeting, on 2nd July 1995, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on childrens participation such as those organised here by the Pony Club. Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race also known as down and back, flag race, and pole bending.
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  • A woman patient has her mole removed during a local procedure at a clinic in the City of London. Looking very worried and perhaps feeling mild pain despite a local anaesthetic to the affected area, the lady has stopped in during her working day at a nearby office job. Bending over the small wound on the lady’s back, the doctor uses a scalpel to cut away at the mole that was giving discomfort, or suspected of becoming malignant.
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  • The legs of two young girls sit astride their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs, short polished boots and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, the rider nearest the viewer sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • Two young girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Adorned with winners’ rosettes, the horses look their finest for the judges. The girls are smart too, wearing the expected jackets and ties, jodhpurs and during competition, helmets too. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
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  • Bridge over the River Teme towards Ludlow Castle in Ludlow, United Kingdom. Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurences, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme.
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  • Bridge over the River Teme towards Ludlow Castle in Ludlow, United Kingdom. Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurence's, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurences, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme.
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  • Sign for artisan ales. Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurence's, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Gardens in Ludlow, a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurence's, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Gardens in Ludlow, a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurences, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme.
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  • Gardens in Ludlow, a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurences, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme.
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  • Worldwide travel agents in Ludlow, a market town in Shropshire, England. With a population of approximately 11,000, Ludlow is the largest town in south Shropshire. The town is near the confluence of two rivers. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Atop this hill is Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurences, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme.
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  • Craftsmen at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons, mould local clay around the wax image of a diety to be cast in bronze. The clay is from fine silt traditionally collected locally at the bend of the Kaveri River..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,ƒÚlost wax,ƒÙ process remains unchanged to this day.
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  • With a dark, weathered face, an elderly man carries a harvest of straw on his back - a traditional way of bringing in the harvested - in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. The man is close to the viewer, looking directly at us while other members of his community appear around a bend. Agriculture accounts for about 40% of Nepal's GDP, services comprise 41% and industry 22%. Agriculture employs 76% of the workforce, services 18% and manufacturing/craft-based industry 6%. Agricultural produce — mostly grown in the Terai region bordering India — includes tea, rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops, milk, and water buffalo meat. Industry mainly involves the processing of agricultural produce, including jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and grain.
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  • Boats sit in the sand and mud in the empty harbour with the tide out on 15th September 2020 in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust. It is the most northerly village in Wales. The name Cemaes derives from the Welsh word cemais, meaning 'bend or loop in a river, inlet of sea, bay'.
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  • Boats sit in the sand and mud in the empty harbour with the tide out on 15th September 2020 in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust. It is the most northerly village in Wales. The name Cemaes derives from the Welsh word cemais, meaning 'bend or loop in a river, inlet of sea, bay'.
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  • Boats sit in the sand and mud in the empty harbour with the tide out on 15th September 2020 in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust. It is the most northerly village in Wales. The name Cemaes derives from the Welsh word cemais, meaning 'bend or loop in a river, inlet of sea, bay'.
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  • Boats sit in the sand and mud in the empty harbour with the tide out on 15th September 2020 in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust. It is the most northerly village in Wales. The name Cemaes derives from the Welsh word cemais, meaning 'bend or loop in a river, inlet of sea, bay'.
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  • Lush forest borders a bend in the Kinabatangan River, within the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, in Bilit, Sabah, Malaysia, on 9 September 2016.
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  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
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  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
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  • View along the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham. It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world.
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